Ticks Home in on Body Heat: A New Understanding of Ectoparasite Host-Seeking and Repellent Action
Ann L. Carr, Vincent L. Salgado
This study shows ticks use radiant heat sensed by their Hallers organ to find hosts and demonstrates repellents disrupt this heat sensing without affecting odor-based host-seeking.
PLoS ONE · Aug 23, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience